User contributions for Joelthesecond

6 July 2024

• 00:4100:41, 6 July 2024 diff hist +13 m Stretched tuning →Effects on tuning: Many so-called baby grand pianos have shorter strings than vertical pianos.

21 June 2024

• 15:3715:37, 21 June 2024 diff hist −8 Lee Konitz Undid revision 1230242703 by Joelthesecond (talk) Links had already appeared. My bad. Tag: Undo
• 15:3515:35, 21 June 2024 diff hist +8 m Lee Konitz →Career: Added links to Gerry Mulligan and Elvin Jones, oddly missing Tag: Reverted

10 April 2024

• 22:3322:33, 10 April 2024 diff hist −11 Inharmonicity I don't know about the tabla, but pianos, of all the instruments, are inharmonicit enough that professionals spend their careers adjusting their approach to accommodating the sharpness of overtones.
• 21:0321:03, 10 April 2024 diff hist −4 m Piano Since the diatonic and pentatonic scales can be transposed, I should have said "a" as opposed to "the".
• 18:5818:58, 10 April 2024 diff hist +65 Piano →Pedals: Improved description of the sustain pedal function
• 14:4314:43, 10 April 2024 diff hist +402 Piano Made much better sense of the keyboard and scales. No, the black keys are not for accidentals. They are to facilitate use of the chromatic scale within a manageable space.

8 April 2024

• 15:3815:38, 8 April 2024 diff hist +105 m Steinway D-274 →Development of the modern D-274: Fixed a citation that I screwed up.
• 15:0515:05, 8 April 2024 diff hist +5 Steinway D-274 →Development of the modern D-274: Edited for clarity

6 April 2024

• 14:5314:53, 6 April 2024 diff hist +2 m Inharmonicity Not just any hammer.
• 13:5413:54, 6 April 2024 diff hist 0 m Piano acoustics →The Railsback curve: Didn't like the smaller size.
• 13:5113:51, 6 April 2024 diff hist +6 m Piano acoustics →The Railsback curve: Can't get the leading "The" to be part of the text without changing the size of the graphic from 450 to 400. Someone else might be savvy enough. Or it's fine the way it is. :)
• 13:4013:40, 6 April 2024 diff hist +28 Piano acoustics →String length, mass and tension: Fixed inappropriate caption.

5 April 2024

• 13:2213:22, 5 April 2024 diff hist +268 Piano acoustics →String length, mass and tension: Misc. improvement. Need help fixing the website citation. Thanks.
• 03:3103:31, 5 April 2024 diff hist −4 Inharmonicity →Sound quality of inharmonicity: Inharmonicity does not stretch overtones. Stretch is what tuners do to accommodate inharmonicity having caused overtones to run sharp.
• 03:1003:10, 5 April 2024 diff hist −54 m Piano acoustics →The Railsback curve
• 01:2401:24, 5 April 2024 diff hist +95 Piano acoustics →Multiple strings: gave the piano's multiple strings their ubiquitously common name
• 01:1801:18, 5 April 2024 diff hist −520 Piano acoustics →The Railsback curve: Tackling the misinformation here. The Railsback is often misunderstood. No time for citations at the moment. They will follow in the coming days.

4 April 2024

• 14:3314:33, 4 April 2024 diff hist −407 Stretched tuning This was an erroneous citation, or erroneous conclusion from a citation. Also the graphic misunderstands stretched tuning. More to come.
• 13:0313:03, 4 April 2024 diff hist −84 Steinway D-274 →See also: This is a Steinway concert grand page. There is no value nor reason to have links to other manufacturers.
• 03:4203:42, 4 April 2024 diff hist −34 Sound board (music) Miscellaneous improvements

3 April 2024

• 20:2420:24, 3 April 2024 diff hist +145 Tonewood →Hardwoods: Improved the reasons for electric guitar selection.
• 20:1420:14, 3 April 2024 diff hist +1 m Alder Little things compose the group; the group comprises, (and is composed of) the smaller.
• 18:3518:35, 3 April 2024 diff hist −3 Tonewood According to five of the most important current dictionaries, "soundboard" is the correct spelling. Never do they accept "sound board".
• 18:3218:32, 3 April 2024 diff hist +6 Sound board (music) Dictionary.com, Merriam-Webster, Cambridge, Collins, and the OED all say it is "soundboard"; none of them show results for "sound board". "Sounding board" is included in three of the five dictionaries. Tag: Disambiguation links added
• 18:3118:31, 3 April 2024 diff hist +22 Soundboard Working my way through re-naming "sound board" to the appropriate word "soundboard". current
• 15:0315:03, 3 April 2024 diff hist +91 Stretched tuning →Effects on tuning: Finally got this right. The 6th harmonic is more useful than the 8th in most circumstances.
• 14:2914:29, 3 April 2024 diff hist +1 m Stretched tuning →Effects on tuning: corrected my silly error

2 April 2024

• 22:5522:55, 2 April 2024 diff hist +291 Stretched tuning →Effects on tuning: improved the sophistication of the tuning challenge of stretching octaves to accommodate inharmonicit strings.

31 March 2024

• 16:3416:34, 31 March 2024 diff hist +411 Piano tuning →Temperament: Added clarity and also a mention of electronic tuning devices
• 15:0715:07, 31 March 2024 diff hist +11 Piano tuning Corrected the interval of the 17th, and a misspelling.

30 March 2024

• 14:5514:55, 30 March 2024 diff hist +1,061 Talk:Pseudo-octave Lots of problems here. current

25 March 2024

• 19:4419:44, 25 March 2024 diff hist +961 Talk:Piano tuning Use of "bichord" and "trichord".

25 November 2023

• 17:0217:02, 25 November 2023 diff hist −34 m Werner Schlager →Career: "Renown" is a noun; "renowned" is a past tense verb. "Avidly" and "blatantly" are a bit non-sensical modifier here.

9 November 2023

• 03:4303:43, 9 November 2023 diff hist +8 Piano acoustics →String length, mass and tension: Aligned the ordering of low to high strings; also allowed for incremental size changes in "lower" vs. "higher" strings.
• 02:2202:22, 9 November 2023 diff hist +129 Piano acoustics →Shape of the curve: Added several likely reasons for the divergence of the tuning graph as compared to the Railsback graph.

25 July 2023

• 15:3015:30, 25 July 2023 diff hist +434 Steinway & Sons →Patented inventions: Important distinction between "inventing" and "patenting".
• 13:5913:59, 25 July 2023 diff hist +6 Steinway & Sons →Patented inventions: Clarified the 45 degree construction of the Steinway pinblock
• 13:4213:42, 25 July 2023 diff hist +1 m Steinway & Sons →Patented inventions: Didn't want to use "easily" twice in such close proximity.

20 July 2023

• 02:3102:31, 20 July 2023 diff hist +45 Steinway & Sons →Patented inventions: Cleaning up my edit of minutes ago.
• 02:2502:25, 20 July 2023 diff hist +7 Steinway & Sons →Patented inventions: Prior to the capstan screw, the repetitions were connected to the keys. It was hence infeasible to service the piano. The capstan made frequent adjustment reasonable.
• 02:0802:08, 20 July 2023 diff hist +117 Steinway & Sons →Patented inventions: Gave a fuller synopsis of Steinway's innovative bridge construction

25 May 2023

• 02:2402:24, 25 May 2023 diff hist −17 m Wes Montgomery No edit summary

16 February 2023

• 02:4702:47, 16 February 2023 diff hist +6 Wes Montgomery Undid revision 1139629478 by Joelthesecond (talk) This article, in the Techniques section, already (and correctly) says that "Montgomery plucked the strings...". Further, while his playing was distinguished, many guitarists are. But his plucking style was unusual, hence "distinctive".
• 02:3802:38, 16 February 2023 diff hist −8 Wes Montgomery Undid revision 1138355831 by HistorianFromSyracuse (talk) Tag: Undo

14 December 2022

• 05:1205:12, 14 December 2022 diff hist +119 Agraffe Made better sense of "agraffe" as a part of a champagne bottle.

30 August 2022

• 02:5802:58, 30 August 2022 diff hist −18 Table tennis Undid revision 1107050350 by Vive la Franks (talk). "Between three and eight" makes no sense. Tag: Undo

12 August 2022

• 03:1203:12, 12 August 2022 diff hist +15 Piano acoustics Undid revision 1103579241 by Woodstone (talk) Please include YOUR citation. You'll be unable. The size of treble wire descends from size 21 (sometimes 22) to 13 in virtually all pianos manufactured in the past 150 years. That fact underscores your obligation in citing the impossibility of your assertion that the treble wire remains a constant size. Tag: Undo

10 August 2022

• 03:3803:38, 10 August 2022 diff hist +15 Piano acoustics Corrected the relationship between treble strings' diameter and length Tag: Reverted

26 June 2022

• 01:4901:49, 26 June 2022 diff hist +333 Comprised of Offered a broader but still non-dogmatic view of the "compose" vs. "comprise" issue.